Patents by Inventor Stephen E. Jacobs

Stephen E. Jacobs has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20100191539
    Abstract: A system and method for effectively utilizing a transport structure in an electronic network includes user devices that device users utilize to communicate with an information service for receiving information distribution services. Transport structures communicate with the user devices through the electronic network to collect various relevant types of metadata that is then utilized for providing selected information from the information service to targeted ones of the device users. A transport server coordinates functions of the transport structures by providing task instructions and navigation instructions for effectively operating the transport structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Donald L. Loughery, III, Milton Frazier, Austin Noronha, Tim Smith, Stephen E. Jacobs, Rajiv Rainier
  • Patent number: 4262750
    Abstract: The drive unit of a conventional mechanically actuated shaker for removing comestibles from their support vines is supplanted by a pair of hydraulic motors capable of effecting extremely rapid forward and reverse movement of the shaker. An adjustable multivibrator circuit produces electrical pulses of predetermined duration and frequency. The pulses activate a solenoid-operated hydraulic valve supplying first the forward motor and then the reverse motor with hydraulic fluid. The quick, snapping action of the shaker afforded by the electro-hydraulic drive apparatus effectively denudes the plants or vines of their fruit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1981
    Inventors: Michael J. Merkley, Stephen E. Jacobs, Edward L. Straub
  • Patent number: D1001931
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen E. Jacobs